Nether garment



Jun 8, 1943.

A. BOGART NEITHER GARMENT Filed July 19, 1941 R m, MF 1 M Va m N9 T aA B r m M m F Y B Patented June 8, 1943 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 8 Claims.

This invention relates to nether garments provided with leg openings, in the example herein shown being particularly adapted for men. According to the invention the garment may be formed essentially of only three pieces and so that there is desirable increased thickness at the front lower abdominal mid-portion and also so that when the garment is worn there is above such portion a lapping of the pieces which together form what I term the front and which are maintained definitely in lapped relation to each other, though unconnected for at least a portion of their extent upwardly, reaching preferably each past the vertical front center line of the garment. Whether the garment is formed generally of woven, knitted or other fabric is not material, nor is it, material whether it be formed as a brief (or without legs) or with legs of any required length. The garment may have its top margin interrupted, as where the lapping referred to extends quite to the top of the garment, in which case buttons or other fastening devices or means may be employed to connect the ends of said margin, or it may exist uninterrupted or continuous, as where such margin is made to contain within its circuit an elastic portion or is wholly elastic. the crotch which is developed by a novel forming and relation of meeting edges of the front and what I term the back of the garment.

In the drawing,

Figs. 1 and 2 are exterior face views of the two blanks from which to form the front-forming pieces;

Fig. 3 is a similar view of said pieces assembled to form the front;

Fig. 4 is a front elevation of the garment; and

Fig. 5 shows the back-forming piece.

The pieces shown by Figs. 1 and 2 may be substantial counterparts of each other, at least with respect to their lower portions or panels I. Each panel has an upward extension 2, here narrower than the panel, which is offset laterally with respect thereto, or so that its relatively inner upright margin 2a coinciding with a line bisectling the panel. The pieces are assembled as shown by Fig. 3 or with the two panels in substantial registry with each other but with the two extensions laterally offset from each other and with the relatively inner upright maginal portions of said extensions lapping each other; when the pieces are so associated and secured in registry with each other the said front is formed. The relatively inner lateral marginal portion of one extension (here the forward one, shown by Desirably, there is a bulge'at' Fig; 2) forwardly laps the corresponding marginal portion of the other; preferably each extension is bisected by the axis of the panels.

The piece 3-shown by Fig. 5 here forms the back.

The outer lateral margins 2b of the extensions of the front are respectively secured, as by stitching, to the lateral margins 3a of the upper portion of the back, thus to complete the circuitous form of the upper portion of the garment.

Leg openings 4 are to be formed by joining the bottom middle margin of the front to the bottom middle margin of the back while leaving the front and back unjoined at each side from the aforesaid upper portion of the garment to the joint between such margins. For'this purpose at least one of the lowerportions of thefront and back (in the case of the front, being formed by its panels and in the case of the back, being the portion here below the line c--c in Fig. 5) has its lateral margins generally converging downwardly; in this example this is true of such margins of both said portions, as at la and 3b, and the said margins are preferably concave. Said lower middle margin, lb, of the front is joined, as by stitching, to said lower middle margin, 30, of the back throughout substantially the whole extent of such margins.

One or both of the latter margins are preferably convex and if only one is the other is with-- out substantial concavity whereby, in view of such convexity, when they are so stitched that the stitching is parallel with each margin the resulting crotch and lower middle abdominal portion of the garment will afford a desirable bulge, thus avoiding strain on the wearer whatever his posture and providing for comfort in the crotch region. The said stitching -is of course preferably so done that said margins will be infolded and thus hidden.

If each piece which goes to form the front has the form hereinbefore set forth (its extension narrower than and offset laterally of the panel,

as described) the panel will project beyond one side of the extension, as at IT. Preferably, though not necessarily, the upper margin lc of such projection is formed to incline downwardly from the extension and desirably convex. In the blank from which each piece is formed there preferably initially exists a lapel 2a: projecting beyond the ultimate margin 2a of the extension.

Having slit the piece, as at 5, this lapel is folded back and ctitched to the body of the extension, thus forming a two-ply flap 6.

The two pieces to form the front should be joined together as to the upper portions of their panels, as by stitching 1 traversing the panels and here parallel with each margin to, which latter is desirably infolded.

In this example the upper portion of the garment is to be secured in closed state, with the flaps 6 lapping each other, as by buttons 8 and buttonholes 9. These are so positioned as to leave the flaps unconnected a substantial distance upwardly from their lower ends. I designates a piece which may be stitched to the upper part of the garment, as usual, to form a belt.

The material of the garment surrounding each leg opening 4 may of course be extended to provide a leg of any desired length or attached legs provided.

One obvious advantage incident to the panel being of relatively increased thickness is that the garment is thereby reinforced against ripping in a direction through the crotch.

In the example the portions of each piece 01' segment shown by Figs. 1, 2 and 5 are integral; this presents an indicated advantage of my invention but it is not in all aspects essential.

In some of the appended claims I claim the front per se because it may be treated as an independently manufactured and sold part of the garment.

H designates binding at the seams joining the front and back and extending around each leg opening. 7

Having thus fully described my invention What I claim is:

1. In nether garments of the class having leg openings, the hereindescribed front including a pair of substantially counterpart panels disposed and at their upper portions confined in laminated relation to and in substantial registry with each other and respectively having upstanding extensions narrower than the panels and having their own central vertical axes respectively on opposite sides of the central Vertical axis of the two panels and one of said extensions having its relatively inner lateral marginal portion in forwardly lapping relation to the other extension.

2. The front set forth in claim 1 characterized by said panels being confined in laminated relation to and in substantial registry with each other along a line traversing the upper portion of the panels transversely thereof.

3. The hereindescribed front for a nether garment of the class described including a pair of substantially counterpart panels disposed and at their upper portions confined in laminated relation to and in substantial registry with each other and respectively having upstanding extensions whose relatively inner upright marginal portions lap each other and each of which marginal portions has its own upright margin coinciding with a line bisecting the corresponding panel.

4. In a nether garment of. the class described, the combination, with a front including a pair of substantially counterpart panels disposed and at their upper marginal portions confined in laminated relation to and in substantial registry with each other and respectively having upstanding extensions narrower than the panels and having their own central vertical axes respectively on opposite sides of the central vertical axis of the two panels and one of said extensions having its relatively inner lateral marginal portion in forwardly lapping relation to the other extension, a back having lateral margins respectively secured to the relatively outer lateral margins of said extensions and also having a bottom margin secured to the bottom margins of the panels.

5. In a nether garment of the class described in combination, with a front including a pair of substantially counterpart panels disposed and at their upper portions confined in laminated relation to and in substantial registry with each other and respectively having upstanding extensions whose relatively inner upright marginal portions lap each other and each of which marginal portions has its-own upright margin coinciding with a line bise'cting the corresponding panel, a back having lateral upright margins secured to the relatively outer upright margins of said extensions and also having a bottom margin secured to the bottom margins of the panels.

6. The combination set forth in claim 5 characterized by both of said marginal portions being bisected by the central vertical axis of the panels.

7. The combination set forth in claim 4 characterized by the part of the garment including said bottom margins being formed with a bulge.

8. The nether garment set forth in claim 4 characterized by said panels being confined in laminated relation to and in substantial registry with each other along a line traversing the upper portion of the panels transversely thereof.

' ABRAHAM BOGART. 

